The Data Center track enables you to demonstrate competence with data center technologies and related configuration and troubleshooting skills. JNCIA-DC, the associate-level certification in this track, is designed for data center networking professionals with introductory-level knowledge of the Juniper Networks Junos software and data center devices. The written exam verifies your understanding of data center technologies, related platform configuration, and troubleshooting skills.This self-paced course provides instruction on data center switching using Juniper products. This course lays the foundational knowledge to understand a data center built upon an IP fabric, but does not include Ethernet VPN–Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) architecture. This course covers Ethernet switching, VLANs, Layer 2 security features, routing policies, link aggregation, load balancing, filter-based forwarding (FBF), routing instances, BGP, graceful restart, and bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD). This course is based on Junos OS 21.3R1.9.